Ex-Bush spokesman: President used 'propaganda' to push war

[jreeves]

Lmao..it seems like Mcclellan needs to take his own advise...

McClellan pointed to the timing of Clarke's book.

"If Dick Clarke had such grave concerns, why wait so long? Why wait until the election?" Instead, McClellan said, Clarke "conveniently" released a book in the middle of the campaign season.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/22/bush.clarke/

$$$$$=controversial Mcclellan book.....

 

[jreeves]

In a scathing new memoir, former White House spokesman Scott McClellan goes after his former bosses for using propaganda to start a war -- and after the press corps for not being skeptical enough of what McClellan himself told them.

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House
By MIKE ALLEN | 5/27/08 6:18 PM EST

McClellan says the administration relied on "propaganda" to sell the war.


Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.

Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” :

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.

• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.

• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”

• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.

• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html

Wonder why Mccellan didn't take his own advise?

Challenging motivation
McClellan pointed to the timing of Clarke's book.

"If Dick Clarke had such grave concerns, why wait so long? Why wait until the election?" Instead, McClellan said, Clarke "conveniently" released a book in the middle of the campaign season.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/22/bush.clarke/

 

[DeadCanDance]

McClellan book a surprise hit for many, even publishers - No. 1 on Amazon

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The allegations of deceit in Scott McClellan's book have been a surprise not only for Bush officials enraged with the former White House spokesman but also for publishers who turned down what is now the industry's hottest release.

McClellan, a press secretary known for loyally defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and other issues, has written that his ex-boss misled the country about Iraq and calls the White House atmosphere "insular, secretive and combative."

"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" was No. 1 on Amazon.com and the publisher, Public Affairs, said that the printing has been doubled from 65,000 to 130,000.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikD3jNX4HCmyUMPGLaTM2f2srTlwD90VLFOG0

 

[jreeves]

McClellan book a surprise hit for many, even publishers - No. 1 on Amazon

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The allegations of deceit in Scott McClellan's book have been a surprise not only for Bush officials enraged with the former White House spokesman but also for publishers who turned down what is now the industry's hottest release.

McClellan, a press secretary known for loyally defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and other issues, has written that his ex-boss misled the country about Iraq and calls the White House atmosphere "insular, secretive and combative."

"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" was No. 1 on Amazon.com and the publisher, Public Affairs, said that the printing has been doubled from 65,000 to 130,000.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikD3jNX4HCmyUMPGLaTM2f2srTlwD90VLFOG0

Duh....why do you think he wrote it??$$$$$$$

 

[RetiredGySgt]

McClellan book a surprise hit for many, even publishers - No. 1 on Amazon

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The allegations of deceit in Scott McClellan's book have been a surprise not only for Bush officials enraged with the former White House spokesman but also for publishers who turned down what is now the industry's hottest release.

McClellan, a press secretary known for loyally defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and other issues, has written that his ex-boss misled the country about Iraq and calls the White House atmosphere "insular, secretive and combative."

"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" was No. 1 on Amazon.com and the publisher, Public Affairs, said that the printing has been doubled from 65,000 to 130,000.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikD3jNX4HCmyUMPGLaTM2f2srTlwD90VLFOG0

So what? Fiction routinely is number 1 sellers. People like fantasy, especially if it is saying what they want to hear.

 

[Ravi]

Scottie's a doosh. So is his ex-boss.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Scottie's a doosh. So is his ex-boss.

That is President Doosh, thank you.

 

[rayboyusmc]

No lies were told: Keep on drinking the kool aid.

4100 dead Americans for what?

For the Glory of the Bush Legacy. FU

 

[rayboyusmc]

That's what you get from the MSM. When are they going to learn to check facts out? That's why I get my news from Fox.

Fox doesn't use facts. If you really think they are more objective than the mainstream.

 

[manifold]

Scottie's a doosh. So is his ex-boss.

The thing that always amused me about Scottie was how uncomfortable and awkward he looked delivering his master's lies to the press. You could see that he obviously didn't believe the words coming out of his own mouth. Snow on the other hand, that guy could lie like the best of them.

 

[Steerpike]

The thing that always amused me about Scottie was how uncomfortable and awkward he looked delivering his master's lies to the press. You could see that he obviously didn't believe the words coming out of his own mouth. Snow on the other hand, that guy could lie like the best of them.

McClellan was a terrible spokesman. If the admin had any sense they'd have fired him 2 months in. But Bush has a history of keeping people around no matter how bad they screw up.

 

[Steerpike]

Snow on the other hand, that guy could lie like the best of them.

The thing about Snow, he came after the build up to the war and all that, so he didn't have to worry about it. I think he believed what he was telling people.

 

[Ravi]

But Bush has a history of keeping people around no matter how bad they screw up.

You don't say?

 

[T-Bor]

How many presidents do it to sell a war? dope.

No! Really?

The White House, regardless which party is in control tailors what it sells to the public to get them to buy it. Duh.

I think you should put yourself in for a commendaiton or some such shit ....

 

[RetiredGySgt]

How many presidents do it to sell a war? dope.

Every President that has "sold" us a war.

Wilson, FDR, Truman and LBJ are the easy ones. Hell FDR sent marines and sailors to die in the Atlantic for months with no war at all. Knowing he couldn't get Congressional approval for it.

 

[midcan5]

Those who argued what McClellan confirmed were told, 'it ain't so, we all totally trust dubya as he is a moral honest boy.' LOL

Funny, because this was obvious from the start, so why is it a revelation today?

 

[T-Bor]

They couldn't prove OJ killed Nicole either. Guess it never happened. They couldn't prove it. Plenty of people have been proven guility. Only to find out later they were innocent. Your argument holds no water. Just because no one has PROVEN it beyond a shadow of a doubt does NOT mean it didn't happen. Idiot #2.

NO one has yet proven a single lie. IN FACT every commission has stated NO LIES occurred AT ALL. So want to TRY AGAIN? Bush never lied. His Administration never lied. Get over it, it DID NOT HAPPEN. Again for the truly stupid, in order for Bush to have lied, EVERY DAMN COUNTRY we are allied with LIED ALSO. Every major Democrat for 10 years leading up to the Invasion LIED to us as well. Every National Intelligence Agency lied as well. If any of that were actually true we would already know since NONE of them can keep that kind of secret for 6 years. Mush less 15 years.

 

[T-Bor]

Who cares what they did. that doesn't make it right. So we dropped a nuke a long time ago. Let's drop another one. Someone else already set precedent so it's ok.

Every President that has "sold" us a war.

Wilson, FDR, Truman and LBJ are the easy ones. Hell FDR sent marines and sailors to die in the Atlantic for months with no war at all. Knowing he couldn't get Congressional approval for it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Who cares what they did. that doesn't make it right. So we dropped a nuke a long time ago. Let's drop another one. Someone else already set precedent so it's ok.

Sure thing retard.

 

[JimH52]

Who cares what they did. that doesn't make it right. So we dropped a nuke a long time ago. Let's drop another one. Someone else already set precedent so it's ok.

NO ONE wants to put a nuke in bush or Uncle Fester's hands!